Zkuq said:
My impression is that Bethesda has a (short) history of scummy things even before this, so I have fairly little faith in this statement. I reckon Bethesda tried to see if they can get away with this, then chose 'it was an accident' as a backup strategy. |
Well, they tried a similar thing with paid mods on Steam, Gamers rebelled and they instead took that approach from Steam, but ended up enforcing it on their own client/within their games. They tried it with DOOM now and claim it's more or less "optional" or a "mistake", but it's not really a mistake when you're implementing an account feature into 3 games that never once featured such a thing. They knew exactly what they were going for, and knowing Bethesda, they'll likely sit back a bit and try this approach again sometime later. Remember, big pubs don't outright give up on their desires, they just take a slightly different approach or bide their time.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
